skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And funnily enough, food is heavily government-subsidized and regulated. It's not really a free market either.

Sure, but by this metric, there exists no free market on the planet. If your argument is that the healthcare market should look exactly like the food market does today (with subsidies and FDA regulations), most adherents of private healthcare would agree with you.

Privatization != "no welfare".

> Also starving to death isn't really the same level of urgency as dying of a heart attack. There's a couple orders of magnitudes difference in the amount of time available to make a purchase decision, and the level of physical and mental stress you're under while making that decision.

Okay, but not all healthcare is "dying of a heart attack". Obviously it's impossible to shop around for healthcare when you're having a heart attack, and that's exactly what insurance is for. After EMTALA, emergency care is free if you can't pay for it. This isn't really controversial. What's controversial is whether the same framework needs to be applied for planned care, like MRIs, colonoscopies, annual physicals, tonsillectomies, vaccines, prescription drugs, etc.
Yes but what I’m saying is that the float doesn’t increase from 100 -> 200. There’s still only 100 shares on the market at any given time.

If Alice shorts 100 cows on Monday, and then Bob shorts 100 cows on Tuesday, and both are due at close of market on Friday, it’s gonna be a bloodbath.
No, there is already plenty of proof for that.
Lower air density means old carburetted engines run leaner - which since most such engines are tuned to run slightly rich for reliability in favour of slightly lean, gives you more power up until the point they overheat and if they're a 2 stroke motor relying on the oil mixture in for lubrication the fuel, seize.

One of the old traditional racetracks here in Australia is Mt Panorama at Bathurst. It's got about a 180m elevation change between the start/finish/pit straight and the top of the mountain. Back when they were allowed to race motorcycles there, old 2 stroke racebikes were notorious for seizing at the top of the hill if they'd been jetted down at the bottom and hadn't been set "rich enough" to allow for the altitude change. Many many riders crashed and said "It was running really strong, til it locked up on me and spat me down the road..."

(No apologies at all for my off topic response to pedantry...)
There's a ton of info on the Levels blog about metabolic health and CGM's

https://levelshealth.com/blog

In Canada, our CGM's are over the counter, which is pretty cool...you can get the Freestyle Libre or Dexcom CGMs right from the pharmacy without a prescription
There are plenty of value ETFs for those who want stocks with low P/Es. Historically value stocks have even outperformed growth stocks.

Also, the long term average P/E ratio is 15. Stocks haven't really had P/Es less than 5 since the Great Depression.
> We wrote software to do most of the moderation for us but that software isn't allowed to read the Reddit new feed fast enough and submit responses, and the admins haven't given us special access despite asking for it.

Interesting that they made software to moderate but reddit either doesn't want to or can't handle the throughput required to run it. These threads are some of the biggest ever seen on reddit. What happens if they get shut down again? Should they begin migrating to telegram groups?
Yet they have the same headquarters, same CEO and same principal investor...
Aside from that, the license tax is often scaled to the vehicle value.

A new $25k sedan here (Arizona) costs like $350 or so per year to license, but a 40-year-old one worth $700 scrap value costs like $30.
The "better" site looks mostly better to me, but there are two things I don't like about, and what I like even less is the authors assertions that his ideas about those are absolutely and obviously and undeniably better.

My pet peeve is line length. Too long lines are not comfortable because it's difficult to find the start of the next line, that's true. But too short lines force you to find the start of the next line every couple of words, and that's annoying too. There's a middle ground somewhere, and I think it's not the same for everyone. The 650px used on the "better" size is certainly too short for me. I can't count the number of sites where I open the style editor in dev console and go hunting for max-width or whatever to set it to a more comfortable width. So just respect the width of the browser window, which anyone can choose to their own liking. Some margin left and right is OK, perhaps even preferable.

The other thing is font size. Browsers have settings for font size, and in modern browser you can change the size with ctrl+ and ctrl-. Why override that choice?

I like overview: being able to not just see the sentence I'm reading, but a whole lot of context. Short lines, large fonts and large line-heights all work against that.

What I do like, I think, is #444 for the text instead of pure black. Looks less aggressive that way. And some amount of margin left and right. Something like the original page plus "body { margin: 40px 100px; color: #444; }".
Biden should do something about insulin pricing...
How many have a public channel with hate speech?
This is one of the dangers of using "hate speech" as an nebulous term. You can then turn it around and use it as an excuse to ban whatever you want.

I could easily read through any of the front page posts on Reddit, and find what I consider to be hate speech, and if I were in a position of power, I could just use that as a justification to ban the entire domain.

Moreover, it easily allows adversaries the ability to plant hate speech in forums they dislike, and then pressure the authorities to ban it.

At the end of the day, I am an adult, and I reject the notion that sites need to protect me from speech.
>Hu speculates that because the animals climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided feces aren’t as likely to roll off from these high perches.

Why in the world would this be a preferable adaptation?
I mean, that's one way to get fairly good targeting…
"Here's how to..." call a function in a library that does all the work for you.

Expected a bit more.
Statement from WSB mods:

> We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community instead of stepping in with the wrench we may have needed to fix things, especially after we got over 1,000 server boosts. That is pretty unethical.
I think this could do with a better title, it is not clear what the content is about.
Duo is garbage for chat. Its as if they never used SMS or anything similar. Unusable.

I've also used it for video calls. We had connection issues and swapped over to Houseparty (!) to get group chat working fast. That was stable as a rock. Excellent. And we played Uno during the meeting. Bonus.

But Duo seems ok now. For video calls we now use it and are happy enough. So, take that for what its worth. We'll continue using it until it is mysteriously cancelled next year.
Summary: This is concerning because it may mean that people who were previously immune (had COVID) are no longer immune or a new strain is infecting people even though they had immunity to the original strain. Either of which, if true, would be bad.

Data is preliminary but based on previous metrics on exposure and “immunity” we shouldn’t see so many people getting sick. Also possible this is another “super contagious” strain and it is ripping its way across the remaining population that’s not immune. Also possible they just overestimated the number of people that should be immune (obviously this would be the ideal answer).

Everyone is sort of holding their breath that the vaccines will maintain immunity until “herd immunity” can be established. If the virus mutates so existing immunity no longer protects you then we’re sort of back to square one and this will be like fighting the flu where it never “goes away.”
Best ask Alexa.
Ok thanks I think I got your point but you probably worded it wrong. Some can’t buy a stock and then “short sell” it, right? He just sold it
Perhaps. I think a more likely explanation is that it's just not a very professional field. As a field it hasn't been around for very long at all, and it's changed a lot during that period. If it was obvious to tell the difference between bad and good programming, then perhaps things would be different. But I don't think that's obvious at all, and I don't think it's possible to create any meaningful level of agreement in that area. Look at how hard it is to agree on any sort of standard. IETF RFCs take years to process, with the typical outcome being a standard that enough people agreed to publish, but that 0 people faithfully implement.
Thanks, I learned something today. I think the point still stands if you include the time of the radiologist and tech, capital and employment costs for MRI in the US are substantial.

I agree that it is a very strange comparison between MRI and a plane, I was just chiming in on the capital and employment cost for each could be comparable on a per trip basis, not that MRI prices are where they should be.

In my personal opinion, a major problem with US healthcare is a race to the top, where the newest and best care is sought irrespective of the price. A judgement call needs to made somewhere on cost/marginal benefit, and post-procedure reimbursement debates is the worst way to do it. CT machines can cost between 250K and 14 million, as I mentioned in a sibling post. Similarly, MRI costs can range from $170-$5,500 [1]. In the current system, almost nobody is incentivized to keep costs down. Doctors and insured patients want the best care, as costs are externalized to the insurance pool. Insurance companies want to maximize costs, because their profit margin is limited by a % of spending.

https://turquoise.health/service_offerings?q=MRI&location=90...
Next up, "making their own X, without even building their own parallel internet"
ls -l in /lib/security

I mean last time I had sshd hanging and randomly losing access to remote machines due to systemd's newest PAM improvements (homed), when I put the process under gdb, it shown dbus stuff, so it's certainly more than 1-2kloc.
Actually pet health insurance is very common. Everybody that I know with a pet has one and even work has discounted pet health insurance as part of employee perks
Man breaks world record for eating Carolina reaper chili peppers
There weren't any scams going on in the Discord.
The point is WSB isn't all the anti establishment movement.
The only way to deal with it is through splitting these companies up - that's the only constitutional way, and we must start immediately. They're too big.
> No one has any chance to coordinate now.

Even though r/wsb is now private, there are already 3.8m people who are subbed to it and can still see & use it.
How Moog Makes Synthesizer Apps
Reddit doesn't want the SEC breathing down their necks. They are looking for an excuse to ban them.

...and if they can't find one, the SEC will probably just order them to shut it.
The parent comment was likely talking about the hippies, who are not the same demographic as the one you are referring to.
Sure that was 3 months of very similar riots. Take any single one of them and it was as violent as the capitol protest. I guess you know exactly what everyone was thinking that went there? Even though the “leader” of the whole thing, Trump, said “be peaceful, don’t give them what they want, be peaceful.” Please tell me how fascism even relates to this conversation? Isn’t asking for election integrity the exact opposite of fascism?
> Self hosting definitely isn't some magic way of preventing all censorship.

There is no perfect pill. People who self host have higher protections than those that don't.
Deliberate sabotage I imagine.
Market makers just profit off of the bid ask spread, without “motivations” or “market knowledge”
But it is an infrastructure providers, they got nothing to do with the content of the publishers or apps. As such, they should not discriminate. It goes back also to payments clearing and all the way up the chain. There are not too many players and if all of them refuse to give service you are stuck. It should be like electricity or water or phone line, they shouldn't even be allowed to ask or check what content you are delivering.
Just label them as Trump supporters and tech companies will fall over themselves banning them.
> fundamental value

Money is a made up thing. From another comment I made:

> Why is a Audi "worth" $60K but a VW "worth" $30K? A Porsche "worth" over $100K? Why is a Patek Philippe or A. Lange & Söhne Tourbillon watch worth $100K? Why should I pay $300 for one All-Clad pan when for the same price I can get a 10-piece set at Costco?

[…]

> And to go back to my first paragraph: a Porsche is not "worth" $100K to me—because I'm not willing to pay for it, or even for an Audi. But it may be "worth" it to someone else because they are willing to pay for it.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935968

It's a convenient fiction that allows for a complicated society to run relatively smoothly, but it's a fiction nonetheless when you get down to it (IMHO).
We see record low temps for weeks in Dec/Jan combined with the worst fires for 40 years. I don’t think the article is saying “it’s hard to have fire in colder terrestrial temperatures,” it’s saying “despite ‘cooling off’ we are still burning.”
The term may be muddied but it’s not meaningless. Alan Kay’s vision of OO (“it’s about message passing”) never seemed to really take off in the world. When people talk about OO they usually mean classes, objects and methods, used for almost everything as the primary unit of composition. And classes with public methods encapsulating private fields. And often with a dash of inheritance. C++ and Java seem like the flag bearers for this style of programming. It’s popular in C# too.

When people criticise OO, they’re usually criticising this the “Effective Java” style, expressed in whatever language. This style is deserving of some criticism - it’s usually more verbose and harder to debug than pure functional code. And it’s usually less performant than the data oriented / data flow programming style you see in most modern game engines.
There’s nothing wrong with >100% short interest. Think of shorting a stock as a derivative which it is technically. In fact, if you were to add up all the outstanding interests of call options for certain stocks, you are going to get more than the float available for purchase. So does that mean call buyers are in the wrong? Oversubscribed short interest just tells you there were a lot of people short the stock with delta 1 infinite put options. I understand there’s this hate for Wall Street but really let’s at least get the math and details right.
Haha, yes you are correct. My time machine is on the fritz. That said, it is true that I would have been happy to buy a Zen 4 laptop. It is also true that they were not available.

The laptop I ended up buying comes in a Ryzen 5 4500U flavor as well as a Tiger Lake i5-1135G7 flavor. I would have preferred the AMD-powered device but it was not available from my preferred retailer and sold out from the manufacturer, so I ended up going with the Intel version.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize that the leading number didn't denote generation.
PAM using app can fork a process for this, so it's not too horrible, but it increases complexity.
And wallstreet bets is the extent of antiestablishment sentiment?
Haven’t gotten a chance to dig in in-depth: how confident are they that the initial prevalence study was solid?
> It's a straw man because no one is saying "it's preferable for consumers for Tesla to have a proprietary connector". And it's not Tesla's desire for a proprietary network to support its EV sales that causes fast charging to be a disaster in the US for non-Teslas.

>> By buying a Tesla you're supporting the notion that proprietary connections are good.

> You continue to say this, but your evidence is nonexistent for this claim. Standards exist, Tesla doesn't use them for <reasons>, therefore if you buy a Tesla you disagree that standards are good.

> And I think present-day vendor lock-in is a small price to pay for 10-years-from-now higher EV adoption.

You're literally making the argument that you're suggesting nobody is making. That ultimately its better for consumers if Tesla has a proprietary connector. Your reason for that line of thinking is because you assume if Tesla didn't have a proprietary connector there would be no market for fast charging at all, or that it would have been massively delayed. You even acknolwedge at some point in time in the future maybe we'll have a standard connector, but clearly there's some reason why it can't be done now and we shouldn't really be demanding for a standard. It took a few comments to draw that out, but as you can see clearly some people are making such an argument as that's ultimately the root of your postiion.

I disagree with that basic premise. Look at the massive amount of J1772 chargers out there in the wild. They're mostly J1772 chargers because when they were built several years ago CCS2 didn't exist except on paper and J1772 was seen as the industry standard connector in the US market. Now that CCS2 is a real standard and is on real cars driving on real roads, CCS2 chargers are starting to exist. Imagine a world where Tesla did open the connector back when CCS2 was just a spec on paper. Anybody in this market could have built a DC fast charger. Any other car company could have built a Supercharger compatible car, so there would have been more on the market. With such a wider possible market at both ends, do you think there would be more or less widely compatible fast charging stations? Note that Tesla could still have made up for other companies piggybacking on their initial investment of the chargers, as the earlier Teslas had free charging. I imagine the free charging wouldn't have applied to a Ford or VW or Nissan at a Tesla station. Or do the massively anti-consumer move of not allowing other brands to charge at their stations. So boom, there's the whole argument of "but why would Telsa want to invest if not for the vendor lock-in?"

If third parties could have manufactured Tesla/Superchargers or cars, I imagine there would be a lot more Tesla/Supercharger compatible chargers in the wild today.
"The fund has no "major" wins."

Slack?
None of the day traders on WSB are doing after hours trading.
I’m not sure it is; the heart of OOP is encapsulation of data + methods — the object itself. (Or message-passing if you’re being kinky)

ECS is almost the opposite; the object in question is barely defined — rather it’s derived from the composition of its parts. Like a DB, there’s roughly no encapsulation at all; just relations defined where, should you put them all together properly, you get the “object” back.

That is, in OO a particular object is composed of certain properties and capabilities. In ECS, if certain properties and capabilities exist, we call it a particular object.

Implementation-wise, the main difference seems to be the SoA vs AoS argument

But there’s also things like unity’s ECS deviating from rust’s ECS definition — I believe in Unity, components (data) and systems (behavior) are coupled, which fits better towards the OO world (components are the object of question). In rust ECS they’re decoupled (which unity is moving to, someday) and you’re really just dealing with structs and functions. And there’s a whole thing about the “true” ECS definition but it doesn’t really matter.
Nice! We had Obamacare, now we get MCubanocare?
You can also just get regular testing kit on Amazon for $30 that comes with a lancer, test strips, and monitoring device. I bought one recently precisely after reading a headline like this to keep an eye on myself.
Funny how you can have a community/forum/server for years without issues but when you go against the grain new accounts come out of the woodwork to post something rule-breaking which gets the whole place shut down.

Just looking at a site like Reddit, where over the summer most major subreddits were flooded with ACAB posts and the comments said some pretty extreme stuff without issue. But then a new account on T_D, a blue-lives-matters sub, said something anti-police and that was justification for shutting it down.

Don't let your dislike of certain communities cloud your views. Punishing the lawful majority for the actions of a few, often outsiders, and letting those few define what a community supports is not something our society needs more of.
how often do you do standups?
More than a dozen exist https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

I quite like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer... for iOS.
Or you could just look at the best selling EV cars across all of Europe for 2020:

https://i.redd.it/m6z20txyyvd61.jpg
Just to clarify for people outside the UK, this refers to the three-letter variation.
people in /r/wsb are assuming these stories are planted. Given the ridiculously nervous delivery of the story when it broke by the chap on TV (has to be seen to be believed) I can understand how people would be suspicious but idk.

The suggestion is that Friday is apparently the day when the bets actually become due and then we'll actually know if Melvin did cover or lied about covering and actually doubled down.
Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Walgreens sucks at scheduling vaccines, so we scraped it to make slot-filling easier.
CNN just had someone talking about the government should ban people talking about the stock market on the internet.

edit: Here's the link in case people want to see it. Ignore the article about Trump (really weird to blame Trump in this case), but watch the video. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-s...
Ironically, it's because of the ARIA Authoring Practices guidelines[1], which include exactly this sort of nonsense[2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#examples
It's not impossible or difficult to self host. To build your own ISP is. Not a fair comparison.

Yes believe it or not there was a world where you could host your own hardware! But you sold out then, and now you're mad about it. Womp womp. We warned you.
> EDIT: LOL, the WSB sort are here downvoting everything that doesn't parrot their embarrassing [expletive]. YEAH, TAKE DOWN THE BIG WIGS!

Chillax, you’re breaking at least one of the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments. Edit: specifically “Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.” Would appreciate if I could get similar clarification on exactly why my comment has lost karma.
You fail to see how encountering casual racism hurts a person of color?
with a stop limit, you'll simply be left holding the stock if it drops below your limit. depending on what you expect the market to do, this could actually leave you in a worse position (ex, if the value keeps dropping). I'm sure you know this, but, understanding your exit from a speculative position is just as important as your entry.
Since we're doing JMK quotes, he also said "Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."